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Cigar Portable CLOVER ARABESQUE　

The clover arabesque pattern is drawn with green lacquer on the light blue base. The image of a fresh green clover stretching toward the blue sky expresses a refreshing youthfulness and cuteness.
Arabesque pattern is the Japanese name for botanical patterns that are designed with leaves, stems, or vines extending or intertwining.
There is no plant called Karakusa (arabesque) in real.

Cigar Portable EVENING CHERRY BLOSSOMS　

We lay out branches of cherry trees and blossoms on the center of pen body, sprinkled blossoms to the entire body. A craftsman put a bark to express a detail of branch and bloomed flowers.
In addition, black flowers come floating when we look closely and delighted in the expressive image.

Cigar Portable PALMET　

White lacquer is used for the base color, and drawing the arabesque pattern with black lacquer using maki-e technique. A curved lines were drawn on the curved surface using highly skilled techniques. The black pattern on the white background stands out clearly, and it gives a simple and sophisticated impression.
Palmetto is one of the botanical pattern based on the date palm leaves. It is a radial pattern centered on the division point of a spiral. It is said that the palmetto pattern has its origins in the lotus pattern of ancient Egypt, and has become an important motif in arabesque patterns that have spread across various regions and eras.
Arabesque pattern is the Japanese name for botanical patterns that are designed with leaves, stems, or vines extending or intertwining.　There is no plant called arabesque in real.

Cigar Portable MAPLE LEAVES　

The motif is colorful autumn leaves (Momiji). Beautiful autumn leaves and trunks are expressed using urushi lacquer and gold powder. White urushi lacquer is used for the veins of the leaves, but they look silver because of the underneath gold powder.
The autumn leaves motif gives a classic and beautiful finish

Cigar Portable RED-CROWNED CRANE　

This is a pair of red-crowned cranes in a blue-tame sukashi technique.
The black part of the crane would be lost if the original black and white of the crane is depicted as it is, so we had a hard time finding a way to express it.
The shape of the crane is easily recognized by the shading of the silver in the design.

Cigar Portable SEASONAL FLOWERS

This is a black Urushi base of previous artwork “Seasonal flowers”.
Many flowers are drawn on this work. Violet(spring), bracken(spring), peony(a beginning of summer), horsetail(summer), bell-flower (from summer to fall), narcissus (from fall to winter), and camellia (winter).

Cigar Portable CAT on CHERRY TREE　

Cigar Portable PLUM TREE at NIGHT　

We made a famous Ukiyoe art to the pen. Ukiyoe is 夜の梅（plum tree at night）, a famous Ukiyoe-shi, Harunobu Suzuki in Edo period. (1725-1770) The original artwork is stored in the Metropolitan Museum. A face, branches of tree, Kimono are exquisitely expressed.

Cigar Portable AKEBONO

The transparent acrylic pen barrel is painted with “Akebono-nuri” technique.
To take advantage of the transparency of acrylic, transparent amber lacquer instead of vermilion is used for painting with the “Akebono-nuri” technique. And it is blurred to gradually be transparent towards both ends.

“Akebono-nuri” is a lacquer painting technique in which black lacquer is applied over vermilion lacquer and polished to reveal the underlying vermilion. It is said that the name comes from that the vermilion pattern on the black background looks like a dawn shining through darkness.

Cigar Portable PHUNTOM FISH

It is a design of a fish looking up from the bottom of the water.
Inspired by Emile Gallé’s lamps, “Akebono-nuri” technique with black lacquer and transparent amber lacquer is used for creating a transparent body. Furthermore, in order not to loose its transparency, the motif is drawn using several layers of transparent amber lacquer.